This week various Dutch mosques received the same threatening letters. The letters are addressed to ‘all Islamic prayer houses’ in the Netherlands. It announces ‘important visits’ and then ‘pigs’and is accompanied with a nazi emblem. The letter ends with ‘anti-islam’ and ‘islam is [sic] false and devilish religion’.Picture of the threatening letterContinue reading Threatening letters to Dutch mosques→

What does it mean to be a Muslim in the context of violent attacks, fear and Islamophobia? After the attacks in Paris there has been a rise in attacks against Muslims in the UK ranging from verbal abuse to a petrol bomb in a mosque. The online magazine Dazed has made a film “Do you know who I am?” in which young Muslims share their experiences with Islamophobia and the influence it has on their sense of home, belonging and identity and their expectations of the future. Continue reading Lived Islamophobia – “Do you know who I am?”→

I’m very happy to announce that my article on the work of the Dutch anti-Islamophobia networks (as part of our project Forces that bind or divide) has been published in the Journal of Muslims in Europe: “You Need to Present a Counter-Message”| The Racialisation of Dutch Muslims and Anti-Islamophobia Initiatives Continue reading →

Ali Eddaoudi is the first Dutch army chaplain. He is visiting his counterparts in Canada and the United States to build a network that aims to help in countering the message of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and to find ways to work together in ‘normal settings’. Continue reading →